skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A QR code verifying that I'm 18 years old, great! What use is that? Not sure... anyone could copy that QR code and claim they're 18 years old.

Exactly, now scan the sticker with the QR Code on this blog post:
https://blog.certisfy.com/2024/02/from-secrecy-model-of-info...

You'll see it tells you whether the sticker is stolen or not based on where you got it from, ie the "Valid For Source" field.
> Whenever this comes up, the focus is on simply opposing the idea

What are you saying? We have been proposing solutions since immemorial times. If it's bad for the kids to have access, why it is not bad for the adults? If you can answer that question the solution should be evident.
This is nothing new. The "engineerification" in the United States has been going on for the past 40-50 years. I still remember when "trash men" became "sanitation engineers" back in the 80's!

When someone tells me they're an engineer I ask about how hard the PE was. That's when you find out if someone is an actual engineer from a legal perspective or just affixing the term to themselves.
Yes, technical capability will ship in chrome https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/protections/pr...
There still will be. I believe this narrative is part a more general effort to normalize the suspicion that all "leftist" or "progressive" ideology among American youth, especially any rejection of capitalism, religion, or American imperialism, is the result of communist propaganda and mind control. The end goal being the government exercising direct censorship and control over the American internet to preserve "free speech" from pernicious foreign influence.
No, but only because we never put up a fight. We didn't even really try on climate change.

We made a few token efforts. And some progress was made by accident -- swapping out coal for natural gas, building renewables so be more self-reliant, electric cars because they have lower total cost of ownership, and so on.

But we never did anything that required anybody to change their lifestyle. We didn't put on a carbon tax. We built more suburbs, and their mandatory automobiles. We didn't figure out how to build without concrete.

The chart of CO2 levels is just a straight line. There's no inflection point at all, nowhere you can say "Oh, here is where they noticed the problem and started to fight it."

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

So yeah, we're gonna lose. You always lose if you don't even try.
So the answer is "no", since you are still revealing your identity to the intermediary, and can not subsequently control how they use that information.
It comes down to logistics more than not understanding what their users want. If they released m4 on iPad Pro and MacBook Air at the same time - they would have had to release later.

Apple has also become more conscious of keeping their older hardware in production for longer. Old Apple Watch SoCs become the new HomePod SoC and Apple TV SoC. If they have more of their stuff on the latest and greatest, all their production will have less time to amortise itself, and they would need to either have a greater peak of production output for each product or stockpile and delay releases which is not free when you have such valuable inventory.
So why should we listen to anything he has to say? I mean if it's mainly luck, we're pretty much stuck with the circumstances of our birth. It's not like his wisdom helped him and so it can't help us.
I’ve worked at 3 large scale startups now that removed all their FK constraints due to performance and inflexibility issues. The lack of them never really caused an issue - I’ve never missed them. If you have a services / multiple db architecture you’re going to have to deal with dangling references anyway.

I think they’re somewhat obsolete as a concept.
> dungeon keeper

You probably meant dungeon master but had in mind one of the greatest PC games ever made.

Try out War for the Overworld if you haven't already, it's a modern and faithful continuation of the series without the original IP.
> The platform is more open and vibrant than ever

You reveal your lack of experience with Twitter, it's declined a lot.

Pretty sure you can't even link to a tweet (a xweet?) from a news article or blog post - they totally killed the platform, not sure where you've been.
> The worse outcome in my view would be that we all end up being required to use big tech companies as gate keepers for our digital lives.

So your proposed solution is...to give my private data to big tech companies? Who else is going to manage the cryptographic certificates at scale?
If porn is involved in that equation, it's not the primary or fundamental driver.

I'd argue inflammatory foods that have a depressant effect on the nervous system, especially damaging during development stages, along with where mainstream culture is directing people - along with government policy heavily captured by industrial complexes and bad actors (domestic and foreign) in general, will be the leading causes.

If we simply look at the shallow metric of "not having sex" vs. studying to see what's different between those who are and aren't having sex, aren't having children - that's not going to be very fruitful except for people to simply conclude "be attractive; don't be ugly;" attraction is far deeper than the skin, however in part I believe that the inflammatory-depressant state I mentioned is likely to block to a small or large degree, a person's stimulation and excitement from deeper signals and processes that would otherwise 1) make more people attractive to them, as a stronger signal overall - which will be motivating on its own, and 2) also provide nuance to help with targeting to have the nuanced signals to know-learn more accurately who you're actually most attracted to - from more breadth and depth, where you could argue it allows a person's intuition to flourish; rather than be stunted by inflammation, or past unprocessed/unhealed trauma causing people to avoid, etc.
It’s obscure but there was such a contraption trialled by the seals and cia in the 1950s http://www.hisutton.com/CIA_Water-Air_1958.html

Here’s a pedal powered smuggling submarine from the 1940s http://www.hisutton.com/Swiss-Pedal-Powered-Smuggling-Submar...
Yeah, that one is truly scary. Dystopian even. That said, both should be heavily opposed.
This might hide identity from the person requesting the info, but not from the trusted authority. In theory the authority could collect data on where requests are coming from, or where the certs are used. To my knowledge, there's no way to completely hide identity while also verifying an attribute and ownership.
with my bike I can easily outrun any 100m dasher on the earth.
Where are all the Blockchain peeps at? That should be right down their alley... Oh wait maybe not enough surveillance potential or just straight up doesn't work
It doesn't require maintaining a database. The certificates can be in a registry but also can be on your device without being in a registry. In any case, the security is not associated with a database or anything of the sort.
Specifically, its referring to univariate, contiguous point forecasts. Honestly, I'm a little puzzled by the benchmarks.
The math isn’t the problems. It’s the feat and uncertainty.
How is this related to my point? Ability to cash out account holders is not related to crypto being up
Totally. He constantly messes with his pedals and pickups while playing, and never even looks down, it's impressive. Very important as musician to be that familiar with your gear. I heard you can get a Langeudoc like Trey's for about 60k+ now days. Good luck with that haha.

Emily Hopkins! I've followed her for a while. She just did a collab with Anthony Fantano and I think she blew up with it. Neat stuff. Makes me want a unique instrument to play. I saw Bela Fleck perform with a tribal African band and they had an African ukelele run through a wah pedal. Was super funky and not like anything I'd heard
I never witnessed a new Windows version being faster than the previous one.
> vibrant urban neighborhoods.

is that a euphemism? DC used to lead the nation in murder rate for decades -- the DC basketball team used to be the Washington Bullets, which stopped being ironic and funny after a couple years. There are still DC neighborhoods where the police won't send cops without 3+ cars of backup.

DC has gotten much better but is still like #12 or #13 in the US, and it's bad areas are still very bad. The rest of the Fed-Gov areas in the city are locked down hard, but no one lives there, and nearby areas Georgetown or Tenleytown are expensive. Source: from the area, went to AU, had to do background investigations on dudes in SE DC.
Go read any forum about retirement and see all the uncertainty and worry.
True, but the causal link is hard to demonstrate. There's also a drop in friends, especially close friends. In-person social activity is down across the board.

Not that porn definitely isn't a factor, but I'm pretty certain there's larger factors at play.
Is it porn, or an additional effect of whatever has been decreasing sperm counts over the past century

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1393072/
The keys are on your device, it doesn't require management by a third-party.
There's usually an attack defense asymmetry of effort on these things (attackers only need to win once whereas defenders need to always be right) so I can't really see it being anything but a net loss. The fraud detection will also increase false positives because those are never zero.
Not exactly. You would still need to reveal yourself to the issuer. It only hides you from the consumer.
Microsoft announces $3.3B investment in Wisconsin Datacenter
So who gets the extra? Is it split evenly? Or do the lawyers make off with it?
Netlify and Next.js: A Great Combination for Building Scalable Web Apps
And yet if you asked for the "aerocano" as seen on YouTube, they would probably be happy to oblige.
When I started out self-teaching programming on Windows with Visual Studio, in high school long before university, my greatest fear is that I might one day have to understand COM, OLE, and ActiveX. Luckily some friends had already taken an interest in Linux and BSD, radicalizing me in that direction instead. I made a whole career writing backend services for datacenters and still couldn't tell you the first thing about OLE.
Looking at their commit history.
I would like to try this. Are you using ice cubes to vacuum seal or do you have some fancy gadget that I must have !

We need Lance Hendricks or James Hoffman to do experiments and determine the best temperature.
> And woe betide you if you happened to violate the preconditions of one of those annotations.

Umm, this is MACLISP we're talking about -- you know the types at runtime and can pass the unspecialized argument to an ordinary function. A kind of generic function I suppose, though we didn't use that vocabulary back then.

Just because this was 50 years ago doesn't mean that programmers were morons.
> For decoding/inference both are very close to Mamba as xLSTM is a recurrent architecture

Can you explain this statement more if you have time? Are you saying the recurrent architecture of xLSTM enables fast inference on par with Mamba? Or the xLSTM architecture slows it down so that its inference is as slow as mamba?
A lot of people are really defensive about this. What's the big deal if X does well? Why are people so personally invested in pretending like Elon didn't do the world a huge service by removing Twitter from the control of possibly the most politically extreme and anti-constitutional subculture in the entire country?
To be fair, the citations don't pass the sniff test. The very first citation contradicts statements in the article. Check the summary for it:

> Risky sexual behaviors were not associated with online pornography exposure in any of the groups, except that males who were exposed (deliberately or not) had higher odds of not having used a condom at last intercourse. Bi/homosexual orientation and Internet use parameters were not associated either. Additionally, males in the wanted exposure group were more likely to be sensation-seekers. On the other hand, exposed girls were more likely to be students, higher sensation-seekers, early maturers, and to have a highly educated father. We conclude that pornography exposure is not associated with risky sexual behaviors and that the willingness of exposure does not seem to have an impact on risky sexual behaviors among adolescents.
It's difficult to turn modern office buildings (where electric lighting was assumed, 1970's+) into apartments. The reason is that most of the floor area has no access to natural light, and the utilities are buried in the core of the building. That means that you can only have long skinny single bedrooms or massive penthouse floor plans.

Older office buildings make great conversions, since natural light was a design requirement.
This will work, but you risk referential integrity violations, as well as performance problems at scale.

The main issue is what I said in “IME…” – tech debt builds, and people never want to go back and fix it. Just upsize the hardware, easy-peasy.

I would rather see a wide table with a bunch of bools indicating various options, personally. When that gets annoying or unperformant, split it out into logical groups. Color schemes can be their own table, email marketing preferences can be their own table, etc.
Seems abandoned? Last commit 5 years ago.
Absolutely. If Martha Stewart went to jail for much less, a certain CEO[1] should be doing some hard time for ludicrous claims over the past 8 years. Some back-of-the-napkin-math: If we focus on the 4m Model 3 (& Y) vehicles sold that had these claims attached and assume that there was a peak uptake rate of 46% declining to 11% as these claims became obviously untrue. On FSD @ an ever-increasing price of $6000-$12000 USD per vehicle. Let's say take the declining rate difference as indicative of the group that was misled. 35% of those taking FSD took the feature because of erroneous claims, generating about 2Bn in high-margin revenue collected pumping the stock and causing investors to pile on creating even more validation of this claim. Pumping the stock also created massive tranche payouts for Musk for hitting certain valuations that should only have been hit when the automaker was truly a runaway success. Musk is incentivized to use this reality-distortion field & cult-like persona to continue lying about Tesla's future for personal and corporate gain.

[1] Edit: Founder -> CEO
Seems prime for attaching to a surfboard
- "The investigation, which was first reported in October 2022 but has been going on since at least late 2021, involves federal prosecutors in Washington and San Francisco who..."

Just to clarify, this is the same one as this HN thread from October 2022,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33348388 ("Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims (reuters.com)", 469 comments)
Telemarketers and spam callers, perhaps, but not individuals making annoying phone calls to other individuals.
Mainstream conservatives accept parliamentarism.

Mises did not, which puts him on the fringe of the right, next to fascists, monarchists and whatnot.
When sending away your money order for tickets, taper section IIRC were either a different request or different box #. Been awhile lol
System design isn't coding and reviewing all designs across 40+ people and leading cross team tech initiatives is a full time job.
Long lasting? How will everyone in the chain profit if it's only dispensed once?
The baseline 14" MacBook Pro that costs $1600 has 8GB of shared RAM. That's not enough. I don't believe OP is talking about machines better suited for your task, machines in the $1k range.
I honestly don't know your background. Do you have an education and training in anthropology and/or archeology? Maybe you do.

When I read the criticisms in the press and blogs about the work, I found it telling that most of the criticism about Graeber and Wengrow's book is from non-experts. While experts seem to find it a breathe of fresh air.

I personally don't have enough training and education in anthropology and archeology to properly interpret the evidence. I suspect most readers here do not. That's why it's such an important work, because it synthesizes the latest research. Turns out a lot of it is counter to a lot of contemporary works that don't rely on such depth.
The US government official cybersecurity people have a different opinion. https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/briefing-room/2024/02/26/pre...
Phoenix LiveView 1.0-RC is here
So I Am Not A Lawyer, but I always thought it was generally advised to not speak in public about active litigation, and certainly not to blog about it. Is there some nuance or reason why that doesn't apply here?
That's not what was claimed.

It was claimed: "However, early exposure to pornography and unregulated/excess exposure to pornography during the formative years of adolescence has been seen to have various long-term deleterious effects on sexual maturation, sexual behavior, Internet addiction, and overall personality development."

Notice that it said:

1. Early exposure

2. Unregulated

3. Long-term

4. May affect Behavior and/or internet addiction and/or overall personality development

Your citation meanwhile disproves one situation for specifically causing one of possible outcomes.
Pretty weird to try and redefine accelerationism like this. Would have appreciated some explanation in that regard.
This is irrelevant, he is public CEO and has tons of responsibilities. Basically lying to millions of customers in very public manner is a serious issue.
While it's true that there's a correlation between age and maturity in childhood and adolescence, there's also some variability. Nevertheless, the law typically treats age as a proxy for maturity, because it's an objective, easily verifiable trait. If that disadvantages certain children and teens who are mature beyond their physical age, society is mostly OK with that drawback.

Yet over the past several decades, we've seen a change in society attitudes about another personal attribute, sex, which was previously treated as an objective characteristic but is now largely (both socially and in the law) treated as a subjective characteristic, meaning the only way to determine whether someone is male or female is through their own assertion.

I am curious whether we will see a similar shift in attitude toward age. The idea that "age is just a number" and "you're only as old as you feel" has been around forever, but I'd be interested to see if the law codifies that somehow.
What is the latency?
I would buy a carpet made of this to not hear the downstairs people.
New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink
For those wondering... the tip hooks onto a belt... I had the same reaction.

They definitely could make it a lot more clear in the images.
> Maybe a decade or two ago I would've been more optimistic, but it's very much in their economic interests to not have long-lasting immunity.

You know the government pretty much subsidizes vaccines because the risk/reward profile doesn't really work for companies.

Meanwhile there is no meaningful treatment for influenza, so there is no money to be made by not making a vaccine for it.
Sanctions are pretty well known to hurt everyone in the equation. That is in the short term. We'll see what happens in the long term!
Related:

Homemade Liquid Nitrogen Generator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23828316 - July 2020 (67 comments)
How to Be an Amateur Polyglot
Europe is more worker friendly, the US is more business friendly.

They both have benefits and drawbacks.

Personally i'll take the worker benefits over the CEO lottery.
In an arena allocator, the stack can be just a special case arena that gets discarded automatically for you on function exit.
Fascinating, here's the story from the programmer:

http://www.headen.com/XL1.htm

I'm not sure why he felt he had to write it all in machine code though, sadly he doesn't discuss that decision. Perhaps it was due to the time-dependency of the lyrics?
Sure. Organising a community to care for the fork is not.
And after years of publicly looking like a lying car salesman, why would he still listen to those employees? I don’t think it’s the line employees that are lying here.
NOAA's GHCN web portal has "Add to Cart" next to the records. Are there any free climate data regarding ocean temps with a paper trail of the measurements and any "updates" that might have been done over the years?
The problem, in my part of the US anyway, is that there is very nearly no local news. We have the mainstream "local" papers that are owned and operated by large national corporations and we have "local" TV news that is owned and operated by large national corporations. Radio is a little better, but most "local" radio stations are also owned and operated by large national corporations.

The only actual local news in my area are those small independent free weeklies.
Yes, most modern CPUs seem to do RAM ECC at the level of cache lines, too. That lets them do things like erasure coding to cover you if an entire RAM chip goes bad.

SECDED ECC is the academic example.
If SRO units weren't illegal, they could be simpler conversions, since full plumbing would only be needed in one central place per floor.

See https://www.slowboring.com/p/legalize-housing-not-tent-encam...
How we fought bad apps and bad actors in 2023
I can tell by the upvote/downvote dance on the parent comment - people love their celebrities. They get really mad if you talk bad about Elon Musk lol I find it quite pathetic personally.

I of course disagree - I don't see the "huge service". Everything from defrauding investors, customers, speaking out of school (saying he's a physicist in the early days), hanging out with Ghislaine Maxwell, stealing then tanking Tesla, destroying Twitter, he's a walking disaster to the point I believe it's intentional.
He is pretty far-right. And the Mises Institute.
Sure. My point was just that there is value for those who care about security.

Also I have quite a few friends (many Android devs) who have had Pixels for years, and seem happy. My point was that I don't think Pixels are particularly bad. In fact, they are pretty good in some metrics. And very far from being "pieces of shit" like the original comment is saying.

I personally have a Fairphone, which I believe is very good in what it does. But very different from e.g. a Samsung flagship, of course.
depends on your workload. RAM and passive cooling are the most likely issues but afaik an M2/M3 with 16GiB still performs a lot better than an similarly priced x64 laptop. Active cooling doesn't mean no throttling either.

If you don't explicitly want a laptop, a 32GB M2 Pro Mac Mini would be a good choice I think.

Personally i only have used MBPs so far.

But the M-series Air are not remotely comparable to the old Intel Airs, that's for sure :)
Caffeine content in the cup is not a good metric. It is one of the most easily extracted compounds and is roughly equivalent across brew types. The beans themselves are a bigger variable in this regard. Even if you are using a roaster's signature blend, the bean composition of that is going to change month to month and year to year. Even beans from the same physical trees will have varying caffeine content depending on agronomic factors.

In the same cafe on the same day, the reason different drinks have noticeably different caffeine content comes down to the different doses and concentrations they end up using. E.g. 20g coffee would normally produce either a 40mL espresso or 12oz drip. So putting that 40mL espresso in a 5oz cappuccino is much more concentrated than a 8oz filter.
Shouldn't fraud (for the end user/customer) be determined by claims made about the product at the time of sale, and not promises of what might be possible a few years from now?

If you want to say promises of future features is fraud, then surely that would only be in relation to investors?